With GPS on the Camino(s) in Spain

New!

May 2007: Grant Spangler has (again) come up with
some excellent gps waypoints and tracks along Caminos in Spain.
I have converted his
OziExplorer files to gpx format (generic exchange
format) and thence to kmz format (for Google Earth). You can download
each of them below:-

A nice
image showing the Camino Frances, the Camino del Norde,
and the Via de la Plata, superimposed on a grid of ?official maps? of Spain. Looks
to me as though the grid refers to official maps at 1:10k
or 1:25k. See the gif full
size

Errors and omissions probably remain. You use
the files at your own risk.
Please take note that the "Mountain leader" course of the
British Mountaineering Council specifically teaches people
not to use GPS. Their reasoning is that you should be
following your position on the map, rather than relying on a
magic device to tell you where you are. Ask any instructor
and
they will tell you about how the GPS's battery will die
when you need it, how the US army will turn-off the satellites,
or that it will only be accurate to 100m and won't correlate
with your map. You have been warned.
On the other hand, GPS is a lot of fun. And if you know how to
use a map and a compass and a GPS, it could save
your
life.